08-14-2016, 07:38 AM
Dennis S wrote:
Any results on a sanity gap?
Welp, yer sanity ain't no mind when yer jobs'r taken away by sum feriner, and you ain't got nohow noway ta put food on der table.
This divide is more between affluent, upper middle class, educated people and those who have not had so much academic opportunity afforded them, particularly the white plurality that keeps paying out for past and current transgressions of the patriarchy. The former and urban minorities have benefitted most from the American way of liberalism and righting past injustices under our rule of law, striving for that more perfect union, and those latter who have been left behind have a grudge to bear and a reality TV culture infused with gun violence and second amendment rights.
We should all be afraid, very afraid, of the chaos days to come. I just can't understand who amongst the wealthy elite truly stands to gain from "culture wars" writ large and culminating in civil war.
Here's a couple scary scenarios:
1) Clinton wins but Trump refuses to accept that and demagogues his way into inciting his followers to take arms in revolt. Outcome won't be pretty, esp. since a meaningful portion of police and military would seem to fall into the camp that might be swayed by this manifest idiocracy.
2) Trump wins in an obvious Russian hack of our voting systems. Similar outcome when the Obama administration at the behest of intelligence agencies annuls the election results, Trump eggs on an insurrection and the DoD is forced to put it down.
Let's just hope these fools are no more effective in their revolt than Cliven Bundy and his friends overrunning the bird santuary. But if they go for critical infrastructure - power or water systems... it'll get ugly really quick because our urban areas are pretty vulnerable despite nearly two decades of "homeland security" defense buildup.